Monday 20th January 2025 - Simon Markus
Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428
Abstract: Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428.
Between July 2022 and June 2024 excavations took place ahead of the Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme for National Highways. 53 hectares of excavation revealed insights into the pioneers who first settled the Cambridgshire/Bedfordshire claylands in the Early Iron Age, and how their settlements developed into the Roman period and beyond.
Bio:
Simon has been an archaeologist since 2011, working for MOLA (formerly Northamptonshire Archaeology) since 2011. As a Project Officer he led major excavations in Overstone, Northampton on a rich Bronze Age to early medieval landscape including several Bronze Age round barrows and mortuary houses, Roman cellared building with associated industrial centre, and early medieval cemetery and settlement. More recently, he led the eastern portion of excavations (Godmanchester-Girton) for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, and subsequently the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme.
Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428
Abstract: Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428.
Between July 2022 and June 2024 excavations took place ahead of the Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme for National Highways. 53 hectares of excavation revealed insights into the pioneers who first settled the Cambridgshire/Bedfordshire claylands in the Early Iron Age, and how their settlements developed into the Roman period and beyond.
Bio:
Simon has been an archaeologist since 2011, working for MOLA (formerly Northamptonshire Archaeology) since 2011. As a Project Officer he led major excavations in Overstone, Northampton on a rich Bronze Age to early medieval landscape including several Bronze Age round barrows and mortuary houses, Roman cellared building with associated industrial centre, and early medieval cemetery and settlement. More recently, he led the eastern portion of excavations (Godmanchester-Girton) for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, and subsequently the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme.